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•West Side Story special edition - pg. 5-\2 • Slarflyer 59 - pg. 14
Thursday, January 25, 2001
■ Hockey teams heat up season - pg. 15
•Women's basketball - pg. 15
' Men's basketball - pg. 16
The Newspaper of Bethel College
Volume 76 'Number 8
CLARION
King adds chemistry to faculty
By Jonathan Fast
News editor
The chemistry department
welcomes Rollin King to the
Bethel faculty after his post-doctoral studies abroad.
"I am very excited to be here
and appreciate everyone who has
gone oul of their way to help me
get acclimated," King said.
King attended Huntington
College in his home sate of Indiana. He found the small enroll
ment of about 700 and the Christian liberal arts environment beneficial. "I appreciated the personal interaction with professors," King said. "It was valuable
to see Christians living lives I
could watch and lo know them
as whole people."
After graduation from Huntington in 1995, King continued
his studies at the University of
Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. in
the broad field of physical chem
istry wilh the specific focus of
computational quantum chemistry.
King's thesis advisor, Fritz
Schaefer, is an outspoken Christian with several Nobel Prize
nominations. Schaefer often
gave lectures about the intersection of faith and science, encouraging King to continue his undergraduate contemplation of
Christianity and science.
"We had a weekly meeting to
Rollin King
read books about science and religion and to discuss them. It was
Vandal
defaces art
By Brandon Lorgk
Contributing writer
At the end of finals week last semester, Art Professor Dale Johnson discovered that paintings in the main CC stairwell bore slashes.
An unidentified vandal had scratched
horizontally across the bottom of one
piece and left another bearing deeper,
vertical cuts and a puncture mark.
Cameron Booth, who founded the
Bethel ait department, painted both pictures in a collection of 13 pieces that he
had left the art department after his death
in 1980.
"I've been here for seventeen years,
and aboul every four years we have some
type of vandalism to a student's work or
to an artist's," said Wayne Roosa, the art
department co-chairman.
The identity of the perpetrator who
committed the vandalism is still unknown:
"It's not fair to make the assumption that
il was someone from the college," said
Roosa. "Finals week is a time when many
visitors are around helping people move
their belongings out."
"The fact that they sliced two of them
indicates that they were on a rampage,"
Roosa said. "In the past, some vandalism,
I think, was a statement about art. But
sometimes it has been random."
'To me, it's a very violent act. I know
its repairable, it will never be the way it
was again. That's impossible," he said.
Though repairable, the restoration cost
will be high, with the exact amount yet lo
be determined.
"It's really sad that it was treated like
continued on page 3
an open time of thinking and
talking," said King. "I hope to be
involved in the same here at Bethel."
King's first post-doctoral
work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich focused on the computational studies of an important photochemical reaction. Next, King worked
on developing methods to improve computer programs for
computational chemistry in
Cambridge, England.
continued on page 3

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•West Side Story special edition - pg. 5-\2 • Slarflyer 59 - pg. 14
Thursday, January 25, 2001
■ Hockey teams heat up season - pg. 15
•Women's basketball - pg. 15
' Men's basketball - pg. 16
The Newspaper of Bethel College
Volume 76 'Number 8
CLARION
King adds chemistry to faculty
By Jonathan Fast
News editor
The chemistry department
welcomes Rollin King to the
Bethel faculty after his post-doctoral studies abroad.
"I am very excited to be here
and appreciate everyone who has
gone oul of their way to help me
get acclimated," King said.
King attended Huntington
College in his home sate of Indiana. He found the small enroll
ment of about 700 and the Christian liberal arts environment beneficial. "I appreciated the personal interaction with professors," King said. "It was valuable
to see Christians living lives I
could watch and lo know them
as whole people."
After graduation from Huntington in 1995, King continued
his studies at the University of
Georgia. He earned his Ph.D. in
the broad field of physical chem
istry wilh the specific focus of
computational quantum chemistry.
King's thesis advisor, Fritz
Schaefer, is an outspoken Christian with several Nobel Prize
nominations. Schaefer often
gave lectures about the intersection of faith and science, encouraging King to continue his undergraduate contemplation of
Christianity and science.
"We had a weekly meeting to
Rollin King
read books about science and religion and to discuss them. It was
Vandal
defaces art
By Brandon Lorgk
Contributing writer
At the end of finals week last semester, Art Professor Dale Johnson discovered that paintings in the main CC stairwell bore slashes.
An unidentified vandal had scratched
horizontally across the bottom of one
piece and left another bearing deeper,
vertical cuts and a puncture mark.
Cameron Booth, who founded the
Bethel ait department, painted both pictures in a collection of 13 pieces that he
had left the art department after his death
in 1980.
"I've been here for seventeen years,
and aboul every four years we have some
type of vandalism to a student's work or
to an artist's," said Wayne Roosa, the art
department co-chairman.
The identity of the perpetrator who
committed the vandalism is still unknown:
"It's not fair to make the assumption that
il was someone from the college," said
Roosa. "Finals week is a time when many
visitors are around helping people move
their belongings out."
"The fact that they sliced two of them
indicates that they were on a rampage,"
Roosa said. "In the past, some vandalism,
I think, was a statement about art. But
sometimes it has been random."
'To me, it's a very violent act. I know
its repairable, it will never be the way it
was again. That's impossible," he said.
Though repairable, the restoration cost
will be high, with the exact amount yet lo
be determined.
"It's really sad that it was treated like
continued on page 3
an open time of thinking and
talking," said King. "I hope to be
involved in the same here at Bethel."
King's first post-doctoral
work at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich focused on the computational studies of an important photochemical reaction. Next, King worked
on developing methods to improve computer programs for
computational chemistry in
Cambridge, England.
continued on page 3